Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) is the largest district in northwestern Michigan and offers the area’s widest variety of high quality academic and extracurricular programs. Serving 10,000 students across 300-square-miles of Grand Traverse, Benzie and Leelanau counties, TCAPS is home to 12 elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools and a variety of preschool classrooms.

Nationally Ranked High Schools

Award Winning Music and Performing Arts Programs

Class A Athletics

Preschool and Montessori Programs

International Programs

World Languages

Advanced Placement, Early College, Dual Enrollment

K-12 STEM, SCI-MA-TECH and Robotics

TCAPS Online Academy

Cultural Exchange Programs

Extracurricular programs, including Newspaper, Yearbook, Debate, Odyssey of the Mind, Model United Nations, National Honor Society and so much more.

District News

TC East Middle School students in the school’s digital media class created a short documentary about the local opioid crisis, titled “Predator & Prey: Opioids’ savage effect on our community,” which is now available to watch online.

As part of the transition from Old Mission Peninsula School to Eastern Elementary School, which will take place at the start of the 2018-2019 school year, students from both schools will be meeting up at Central High School in March and April to participate in STEM activity days.